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vsprintf: avoid misleading "(null)" for %px
authorAdam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
Sun, 4 Feb 2018 17:45:21 +0000 (18:45 +0100)
committerPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Thu, 8 Feb 2018 13:21:41 +0000 (14:21 +0100)
commit3a129cc2151425e5aeb69aeb25fbc994ec738137
treedb4b82232e26bfe2df75f7654e524ad321a657e1
parentab486bc9a591689f3ac2b6ebc072309371f8f451
vsprintf: avoid misleading "(null)" for %px

Like %pK already does, print "00000000" instead.

This confused people -- the convention is that "(null)" means you tried to
dereference a null pointer as opposed to printing the address.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180204174521.21383-1-kilobyte@angband.pl
To: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: "Roberts, William C" <william.c.roberts@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
lib/vsprintf.c